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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream--a ...more

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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

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Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.